Ok - im really not trippin - it seems there is no-way for a user of my level to change their own password. The feature seems absent from the profile pages.
So what happened was I just found out today that an old old old old account I used at nintendo.com forums had been compromised. I havent logged in there forever - but an old friend of mine that posts there told me about it. I have just abandoned it for now.
I use the same password there/here -
